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US-12019752

Security dominion of computing device

PublishedJune 25, 2024
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Technical Abstract

Examples disclosed herein relate to security dominion of a computing device. A management controller of the computing device can access a physical owner token pertaining to a physical owner of the computing device. The management controller can access a security dominion owner token pertaining to a security dominion owner of the computing device. The security dominion owner token tracks accountability for a security feature of the computing device. A security dominion owner associated with the security dominion owner token is initially set to a first entity.

Patent Claims
8 claims

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3. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the management controller to determine whether to permit the first key to be stored in the secure storage responsive to the management controller executing an application programming interface (API).

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4. The computing device of claim 2, wherein the firmware update package is to update a firmware of the management controller.

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5. The computing device of claim 1, wherein the physical owner token is stored in the secure storage, and the secure storage is included in a same chip as the management controller.

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8. The computing device of claim 7, further comprising, providing an identifier of the second entity to a user of the computing device.

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12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the firmware update package is to update a firmware of the management controller.

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13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the physical owner token is stored in the secure storage, and the secure storage is included in a same chip as the management controller.

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17. The method of claim 16, wherein managing storage of the first key further comprises managing keys stored by a key manager of the management controller.

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18. The method of claim 17, wherein the firmware update package is to update a firmware of the management controller, and the method further comprises storing the physical owner token in the secure storage.

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Filing Date

October 6, 2021

Publication Date

June 25, 2024

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